Robert Plant

Does anyone  else enjoy Plant's solo career more than his work with Zeppelin? While I think Zeppelin was the best of the best of classic rock bands, I do not enjoy them as much as everyone else. I think most opf their music--especially the typical hard rock songs--are beyond uninteresting. However, Plant has time and time again--and I'm starting the reference with his album Now and Zen, for I haven't heard The Principle of Moments and Pictures at Eleven--reinvented his solo career, infusing it with Middle-Eastern, North African, acoustic, and genuinely interesting hard rock.

His best albums are, IMO:

1. Dreamland (Though a covers album mostly, a contender for best/most treasured album in my collection.)
2. Mighty Rearranger
3. Now and Zen
4. Fate of Nations

And as a general reminder:

Don't fear non-prog music!

Dr Know wrote: Dreamland is fantastic (I made a post like this a few days ago, it´s probably a few posts down from this post) I also prefer his solos stuff. With Dreamland he sings with such emotion. Song to the siren, Red Dress..what an album. I also want to look more into his solo works.

Sorry, I did a search for "Robert Plant" and came up with irrelevant topics, so I went ahead with it.

I recommend Mighty Rearranger if you've not heard it yet.

stonebeard wrote: Does anyone  else enjoy Plant's solo career more than his work with Zeppelin? While I think Zeppelin was the best of the best of classic rock bands, I do not enjoy them as much as everyone else. I think most opf their music--especially the typical hard rock songs--are beyond uninteresting. However, Plant has time and time again--and I'm starting the reference with his album Now and Zen, for I haven't heard The Principle of Moments and Pictures at Eleven--reinvented his solo career, infusing it with Middle-Eastern, North African, acoustic, and genuinely interesting hard rock. His best albums are, IMO: 1. Dreamland (Though a covers album mostly, a contender for best/most treasured album in my collection.) 2. Mighty Rearranger 3. Now and Zen 4. Fate of Nations And as a general reminder: Don't fear non-prog music!

Your selection is almost the one I would have  and almost in the same order, too

Pictures at Eleven is a great album!!!!

Everything else is boring.

Much better in Zep.

I really like his fist two solo albums Pictures at Eleven and The Principle of Moments(good drumming by Phil Collins and Cozy Powell).

Now & Zen isn't bad either.I haven't heard any of his newer stuff.

I discovered Robert Plant's solo works through "Now and Zen" still one of my favourite RP albums.

Mighty Rearranger, Fate of Nations is great. I have only heard the track "Morning Dew" from Dreamland. What a fantastic cover! Dreamland is definitely on my "want" list. What do people think of Manic Nirvana? I have it on tape - some good strong tracks but imo not one of his stronger efforts.

For those who don't own these, I highly recommend the albums "No Quarter" and "Walking into Clarksdale" with Jimmy Page et al. These albums also show that Robert Plant is still a rock vocalist to be reckoned with